Ali Dinar ( ar, علي دينار; 1856 – November 6, 1916) was a Sultan of the

Sultanate of Darfur The Sultanate of Darfur was a pre-colonial state in present-day Sudan. It existed from 1603 to October 24, 1874, when it fell to the Sudanese warlord Rabih az-Zubayr and again from 1898 to 1916, when it was conquered by the British and integr ...

and ruler from the

Keira dynasty The Keira dynasty were the rulers of the Sultanate of Darfur from the seventeenth century until 1916. Originally the Keira clan were perhaps regional rulers in the Tunjur state, with Sulayman traditionally seen as the founder of the Darfur state. ...

. In 1898, with the decline of the Mahdists, he managed to regain Darfur's independence. A rebellion led by him in 1915—in the context of his giving his support to the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

during the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

— led the British government to dispatch the

Anglo-Egyptian Darfur Expedition The Anglo-Egyptian Darfur Expedition of 1916 was a military operation by the British Empire and the Sultanate of Egypt, launched as a preemptive invasion of the Sultanate of Darfur. The sultan of Darfur Ali Dinar had been reinstated by the ...

, in which he was killed in action, after which his Sultanate was incorporated into the

Anglo-Egyptian Condominium Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ( ar, السودان الإنجليزي المصري ') was a condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt in the Sudans region of northern Africa between 1899 and 1956, corresponding mostly to the territory of present-day ...

References

Entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica

Jay Spaulding,Lidwien Kapteijns: ''An Islamic alliance: ʻAlī Dīnār and the Sānūsiyya, 1906-1916'' at Google Books
1856 births 1916 deaths Sultans of Darfur Keira dynasty History of Sudan Darfur Egypt in World War I Ottoman Empire in World War I Muslim monarchs Monarchs killed in action {{Africa-royal-stub

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